Surgeon, Intensivist, Health Care Ethics Consultant
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System
Preeti R. John MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, CPE, HEC-C; Critical Care Surgeon, VHA Tele-ICU Intensivist, Health Care Ethics Consultant.
Affiliations: VA Maryland Health Care System, academic affiliation: University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. John is a general surgeon who is fellowship trained in Trauma and Critical Care. She is triple board certified in the following specialties: General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
She is the Peri-Operative Services Director at VA Maryland Healthcare System and clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. John is a healthcare ethics consultant certified by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and serves as Chair of the Ethics Consultation Service at the VA Maryland Healthcare system.
She has served as Vice-Chair of the SCCM Ethics Committee and will be Chair of this committee from Jan 2024 to Jan 2026.
She is editor of a book titled ‘Being a Woman Surgeon – 60 Women Share Their Stories’